The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993) deals with two different points. The first, the love story between Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson) and Mr Stevens (Anthony Hopkins). The second, a part of the II World War history.

The detailed interior decoration, the customes, every single picture.. Everything is described in great detail.

Mise-en-scène gives us also some details about the character's feelings. The fresh flowers Miss Kenton tryes to place in Mr Stevens's office are a sign of what she is really trying to do. She wants to enter in Mr Stevens's grey life. But, at first, he does not allow it.

In some scenes it is clear that there is a great distance between them, they do not know how to come close.

To finish, you can not miss the famous scene. 

A Bronx tale

A Bronx Tale (Robert De Niro, 1993) is a film about gangsters. You expect Robert De Niro acting as the respectable mob moss, but instead of this you see him as Lorenzo, a devoted father.

 

One of the things I liked of this movie was the figure of Calogero (Francis Capra (9), Lillo Brancato (17)) as narrator.

The film deals with Calogero's indecision. One the one hand, his father. An honest hard-working Italian man. The boy loves his father, and he understands what he tryies to teach him. But he sees him as a worker who is never going to make any progress. One the other hand, Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) a ganster who Calogero has admire all his life. He wears elegant suits and he is respected by all the men in the neightbourd. 

This can be seen, for example, in their customs.

I think this film is clearly influenced by Scorsese's cinema. For example, the street scenes have certain paralellism with Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) or Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980).

 

Also, I loved the scene when Colagero meets Jane (Taral Hicks). Editing plays an important role there, since we know what's going to happen sooner or later. 

Thanks to V, an authentic De Niro's fan.